“The Sense of Ice” is a family saga about devotion to dogmas and clichés of “proper life,” about the destruction of one’s personality when people forbid you to break the established rules and live your own way.
“The Sense of Ice” is a book that breaks mental stereotypes. A phenomenon in public life.
The Filanov family is a “status” family. He is the artistic director of a theater. She is a prima donna. They are favored by power and adored by fans. Everything is fine. When the youngest daughter wants to marry a man who doesn’t match the family’s status, the mother removes him from the way—by putting him in prison. The daughter dies. Many years later, the older daughter also steps in to defend the family’s interests… The result is the same: the misfortunes of others and losses. There is no happiness in the family. There is no freedom. An ideology of “life by rules” leads some people to divorce, others to losing their mind, and still others to death.